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Erin stalker to be sentenced today

Erin stalker to be sentenced today

LOS ANGELES -- The pervert convicted of stalking sexy ESPN reporter Erin Andrews and shooting nude videos of her through a hotel room peephole will face sentencing this afternoon in a Los Angeles...  Read Full Story

Rielle Hunter bares all in first interview about affair with John Edwards

Rielle Hunter bares all in first interview about affair with John Edwards

John Edwards' mistress has revealed for the first time how the illicit lovers fell in lust and slept together the night they met -- and claims the presidential candidate predicted the wild romp...  Read Full Story

NJ woman attempting to become world's fattest lady

NJ woman attempting to become world's fattest lady

Supersize me, please. A New Jersey woman who already weighs a whopping 600 pounds is on a mission to double her girth in a bid to become the world's fattest woman. Donna Simpson, 42, who lives in...  Read Full Story

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  • Former Park Avenue Bank president charged with fraud, embezzlement

    The ex-president of a small Manhattan bank was busted today on charges he lied to the feds in an effort to get $11 million from President Obama's...   2:45 PM

  • Soda tax proposal falling flat in Albany

    ALBANY, N.Y. -- A proposed new tax on sugary drinks appears unlikely to pass the state Senate, despite passionate campaigning by New York Gov. David...   1:34 PM

  • Weekend subway service the pits

    It’s slow going on the weekend for subway straphangers. A new report issued by an MTA watchdog found that service is way off schedule on the weekends,...   1:30 PM

  • NYers can track sex offenders with new system

    ALBANY, N.Y. — A new system allows New Yorkers to sign up for alerts when moderate and high-risk sex offenders move into or out of a community. The...   11:22 AM

  • Brooklyn bar-brawl victim tells of FDNY thugs' threats

    Brooklyn bar-brawl victim tells of FDNY thugs' threats

    A St. Francis College coach crouched over -- holding on for dear life to the door frame behind him -- as up to nine drunken firefighters punched, shoved and kicked him, trying to force him into the bathroom of the Salty Dog bar in Brooklyn. "I...   6:14 AM

  • Cops: Partying teens cause $200K damage to NY home

    NORTH GREENBUSH, N.Y. — Authorities say dozens of partying teenagers caused more than $200,000 in damage at an unoccupied house in suburban Albany....   12:54 PM

  • 'Gastric' Rex feels enormously better

    'Gastric' Rex feels enormously better

    Jets coach Rex Ryan vowed yesterday that he won't be on injured reserve for long recovering from gastric bypass surgery. "I'm feeling good," Ryan said at the doorstep of his home in Summit, NJ. "I'm feeling fine." Ryan cut a larger-than...   2:59 PM

  • Driver kills and runs

    Cops are searching for a hit-and-run SUV driver who killed a 60-year-old man crossing a street early yesterday in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach. Morris...   6:31 AM

  • Hi-tech 'screen' doors a threat to city doormen

    Doormen of New York -- watch your backs. James Bond-like facial- and voice-recognition programs -- cheaper than humans -- could kill the need for...   9:28 AM

  • Pols want lifetime coverage for 9/11 heroes

    Pols want lifetime coverage for 9/11 heroes

    The city's $657 million settlement offer to sick 9/11 rescue workers isn't nearly enough, federal lawmakers said yesterday -- as they instead pushed a bill to give Ground Zero heroes health care for life. The $11 billion James Zadroga 9/11...   9:23 AM

  • Chaos rains as storm leaves trail of death, destruction

    Chaos rains as storm leaves trail of death, destruction

    The brutal nor'easter that dumped more than 4 inches of rain on the city over the weekend killed six people, flooded the 911 system with calls, left a half-million people in the dark and sparked calls for federal help. The 70-mph gusts knocked...   9:23 AM

  • Corey Feldman skipping Corey Haim funeral

    Corey Feldman skipping Corey Haim funeral

    Corey Feldman will not be attending the funeral of his "Lost Boys" co-star and lifelong friend Corey Haim. Haim's funeral, which will take place Tuesday in Toronto, will be a "small, private affair," according to a statement released by Feldman,...   2:52 PM

  • Obama's plea for health care: 'We need courage'

    Obama's plea for health care: 'We need courage'

    STRONGSVILLE, Ohio -- President Barack Obama is delivering a new appeal to Congress on health care - "we need courage." Addressing a crowd in Ohio on Monday, Obama was briefly interrupted by a woman who shouted, "We need courage." He quickly...   2:53 PM

  • Family of 'Jihad Jamie' speak out, call for her son's return

    Huffman, Texas, resident Mike Holcomb was embarrassed and shocked that people now call his younger sister "Jihad Jamie", MyFox Houston reported Monday....   2:41 PM

  • Pilots of Northwest plane that overshot airport give up licenses

    The Northwest Airlines pilots who infamously overshot Minneapolis International Airport by several hours on Oct. 21 have agreed to give up their...   1:25 PM

  • Ohio woman says Pa. doc gave wrong breast implants

    PITTSBURGH -- An Ohio woman claims in a lawsuit that a Pennsylvania plastic surgeon used the wrong kind of breast implants on her, then kept her...   12:50 PM

  • Sean Penn meets UN Secretary General on aid mission in Haiti

    Sean Penn meets UN Secretary General on aid mission in Haiti

    Hollywood actor Sean Penn met with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon during his relief work in Haiti, Sky News reported Monday. After attending last week's Oscars, Penn traveled back to the stricken country, which he visited shortly after the...   1:23 PM

  • Continental Airlines to charge for food

    ATLANTA -- Continental Airlines is ending free hamburgers, barbecue and sandwich rolls for many of its passengers in favor of a food-for-sale program...   12:50 PM

  • 3 men injured when car rolls down Calif. cliff

    JENNER, Calif. -- Three California men are lucky to be alive after their car veered off a highway and rolled 120 feet down a coastal cliff. The...   12:50 PM

  • Meeks' second story on Katrina fund seems all wet, too

    Meeks' second story on Katrina fund seems all wet, too

    Strike two, Congressman Meeks! First, Queens Rep. Gregory Meeks claimed that "every dime" raised by a charity he co-founded would go to 30 impoverished families who lost their homes and all their possessions in Hurricane Katrina. But now --...   9:45 AM

  • Lonely jihad mom found pals in terror

    Lonely jihad mom found pals in terror

    The Colorado woman who ran off to Europe to raise her young son among hate-filled jihadists was roped in by Islamic fundamentalists who gave her the attention she craved, her mother said yesterday. Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, 31, converted to Islam...   9:45 AM

  • Gisele's mane squeeze

    Gisele's mane squeeze

    Supermodel Gisele Bundchen was galloping toward naming her newborn boy River until her hubby, Patriots gunslinger Tom Brady, said: Whoa, Nellie! "I wanted him to be called River because I wanted something always flowing, immortal," Bundchen...   9:51 AM

  • Tomlinson agrees to two-year, $5.1M deal with Jets

    Tomlinson agrees to two-year, $5.1M deal with Jets

    There's another "LT" coming to New York to play football, and this one plays offense. Seventeen years after Giants Hall of Fame linebacker Lawrence Taylor retired, likely Hall of Fame running back LaDainian Tomlinson is headed to New York to join...   12:03 PM

  • Mets' Maine 'not into' role -- and it shows

    Mets' Maine 'not into' role -- and it shows

    JUPITER, Fla. -- The question marks keep growing larger for everybody in the Mets rotation not named Johan Santana. John Maine, admitting he was not "that into it" because he was coming on in relief yesterday instead of starting, was hammered...   10:31 AM

  • Cano ready to shoulder No. 5 spot for Yankees

    Cano ready to shoulder No. 5 spot for Yankees

    BRADENTON, Fla. -- The time has come for Robinson Cano to add his enormous hitting talent to the meat of the Yankees' batting order. Ever since arriving in the big leagues on May 3, 2005, the sweet- swinging Cano has been comfort ably surrounded...   9:57 AM

  • Rangers sparked by Avery's return

    Rangers sparked by Avery's return

    If the Rangers are going to make the playoffs, they need Sean Avery to be the player he was in each of the last three stretch drives to the playoffs when he wasn't a third-line afterthought but an essential ingredient in the club's success....   10:31 AM

  • Rookie Douglas starts making his point for Knicks

    Rookie Douglas starts making his point for Knicks

    PHILADELPHIA -- The do-you-believe-in-miracles win in Dallas Saturday night begs the next question: Do you believe in rookie Toney Douglas as the Knicks' point guard of the future? Coach Mike D'Antoni did not believe as recently as nine days...   10:31 AM

  • Devils' Martin returns to practice after missing five months with broken arm

    Devils' Martin returns to practice after missing five months with broken arm

    On the verge of returning to the lineup after a maddening five-month injury, top Devils defenseman Paul Martin said the team's decisions in treating his broken arm won't play much role in his decision of where to play next season. "I don't think...   10:25 AM

  • Islanders top Maple Leafs in battle of bottomfeeders

    Islanders top Maple Leafs in battle of bottomfeeders

    The last time Scott Gordon and Ron Wilson coached in the same game, Gordon was Wilson's assistant for Team USA in last month's riveting Olympic gold-medal game against Canada. Yesterday's match between the Islanders and Maple Leafs didn't have...   10:25 AM

  • Santana's slider shows vintage bite for Mets

    JUPITER, Fla. -- The best news of the day for the Mets was that Johan Santana was able to get a lot more action on his slider. Coming back from...   10:31 AM

  • Cuban SS Hechavarria will pass on Yankees for Blue Jays

    BRADENTON, Fla. -- Cuban refugee shortstop Adeinis Hechavarria is going to get more money than the $8 million Jose Iglesias received from the Red Sox,...   10:25 AM

  • Kansas, Kentucky head classic NCAA tournament field

    Kansas, Kentucky head classic NCAA tournament field

    Technically a Kansas-Kentucky NCAA tournament championship game wouldn't be a rematch, but it would be a heckuva battle -- dripping with hero-vs.-villain drama -- should two of the nation's winningest programs collide in the final. The Jayhawks...   2:34 PM

  • NCAA West region: Many traps in Syracuse’s path

    NCAA West region: Many traps in Syracuse’s path

    Now look what you have gone and done, Syracuse. The Orange had made their way to the nation’s No. 1 ranking and were in contention for the No. 1 seed overall when things started to unravel. They lost at Louisville, their signature 2-3 zone sprung...   10:25 AM

  • NCAA East region: Cornell primed to play Cinderella

    NCAA East region: Cornell primed to play Cinderella

    The No. 5-vs-No. 12 matchup has become the petri dish from which Cinderella has sprung in the NCAA Tournament. Villanova and Western Kentucky two years ago made runs. Arizona did it last year. And this year in the East Regional, we have No. 12...   10:25 AM

  • Roberts gets one more chance with St. John's NIT bid

    Roberts gets one more chance with St. John's NIT bid

    It's not over until it's over, and no one who knows St. John's coach Norm Roberts expected him to stop working before he was told to do so. Roberts and the Red Storm got a second chance to prove themselves by being invited to the NIT last night....   10:27 AM

  • Hello there, 'Glee' spoilers!

    Hello there, 'Glee' spoilers!

    If you have found yourself randomly breaking out into song in hopes that some stranger would bust up your face and criticize the amount of product in your hair, you aren't alone! It's been harder to adjust to life without "Glee" than I...   8:30 AM

  • 'The Price of Beauty' in the eye of the beholder

    'The Price of Beauty' in the eye of the beholder

    Do you remember when the media pounced on Jessica Simpson last year after she showed up several pounds over the legal limit at a chili cook-off? Well, she does. Remember, I mean. And because the beauty was so emotionally devastated by the...   2:03 PM

  • Mike Tyson reality series takes wing

    Mike Tyson reality series takes wing

    Iron Mike Tyson is getting ready to make his debut as a reality TV star. Tyson, a life-long pigeon keeper, will star in a series about bird racing, The Post has learned. "I may have stopped fighting," says the former heavyweight champ. "But...   2:35 PM

  • 'Idol's' agony aunt

    'Idol's' agony aunt

    Every family has a relative it would like to hide -- and "American Idol" front-runner Crystal Bowersox is apparently no exception. A woman claiming to be her aunt is whipping up support for Crystal this week on an S&M Web site. The aunt,...   9:53 AM

  • 'Alice' is wonder at box office

    'Alice' is wonder at box office

    Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland," starring Johnny Depp, easily remained the No. 1 weekend draw with $62 million, according to studio estimates. The Disney fantasy has climbed to a $208.6 million total domestically, becoming the first $200...   11:38 AM

  • Andy Garcia's daughter shines in family biz

    Andy Garcia's daughter shines in family biz

    Andy Garcia says his daughter, Dominik Garcia-Lorido, does a great job in their new film “City Island.” In fact, there’s only one thing missing from her performance: clothes. Garcia-Lorido, 26, plays a college student who makes ends meet by working...  

  • History Channel passes on the Irish this year

    Progress! (Perhaps.) Last year at this time, with a prompt from reader Jim Mulloy, this column noted that the History Channel’s salute to St. Patrick...  

  • Real Runaway Joan Jett is still rockin’ like it’s 1975

    Real Runaway Joan Jett is still rockin’ like it’s 1975

    Given the fact that she’s one of mainstream music’s most infamous bad girls, veteran rocker Joan Jett is surprisingly, well, sweet. When asked about the quiet life she splits between the West Village and a waterfront home in Long Beach, Long Island,...   2:51 PM

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Kate Winslet splits from Sam Mendes

Kate Winslet splits from Sam Mendes

Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet has split from her film...   2:37 PM

Kate Gosselin's attitude roils 'Dancing'

Kate Gosselin's attitude roils 'Dancing'

Kate Gosselin is being a "total diva" on the set of "Dancing With...   2:09 PM

Cindy Adams

Measure of success

Last year's Oscar nominee for "Doubt," Viola Davis, and a fella...   4:04 AM

Sports

Tomlinson agrees to two-year, $5.1M deal with Jets

Tomlinson agrees to two-year, $5.1M deal with Jets

There's another "LT" coming to New York to play football, and...   12:03 PM

Kansas, Kentucky head classic NCAA tournament field

Kansas, Kentucky head classic NCAA tournament field

Technically a Kansas-Kentucky NCAA tournament championship game...   2:34 PM

Steve Serby Steve Serby

Jets should've simply kept Thomas Jones

We know Woody Johnson craves star power, and LaDainian Tomlinson...   10:34 AM

Entertainment

Story buries its Bankhead in the bland

Story buries its Bankhead in the bland

Tallulah Bankhead: gravel- voiced legend of theater, ra pier wit...   11:38 AM

Michael Starr Michael Starr

Starr report

FX's new series, "Justified," which premieres tomorrow night...   1:31 AM

Business

Google may exit China, but now is battling Verizon

Google may exit China, but now is battling Verizon

While Google's spat with the Chinese government over censorship...   9:22 AM

EU fiscal chiefs meet on Greece

EU fiscal chiefs meet on Greece

Greece is to present the first results of its austerity measures...   2:14 PM

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Opinion

Do something, Dave

Do something, Dave

New Yorkers, says Lt. Gov. Dick Ravitch, still don't understand...   9:13 AM

Testing NY's tests

Testing NY's tests

Taken at face value, last weeks' news that graduation rates in...   9:48 AM

Knickerbocker: The latest from The Post's NY politics blog

From the state capitol to City Hall, The Post's reporters deliver...  

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Chaos rains as storm leaves trail of death, destruction

Chaos rains as storm leaves trail of death, destruction

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Brooklyn blogger nailing subway louts

Brooklyn blogger nailing subway louts

Annoying subway riders, beware. A local comedian -- and...   9:23 AM

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